The Guardian: Main section

Friday 15 December 2006

Front page

A major criminal investigation into alleged corruption by the arms company BAE Systems and its executives was stopped in its tracks yesterday when the prime minister claimed it would endanger Britain's security if the inquiry was allowed to continue.

Tony Blair became the first serving prime minister to be interviewed as part of a criminal investigation. Scotland Yard officers running the "cash for peerages" inquiry questioned him for two hours in Downing Street.

National news p18

Planting trees to combat climate change is a waste of time, according to a study by ecologists who say that most forests do not have any overall effect on global temperature, while those furthest from the equator could actually be making global warming worse.

Letters: Ten Palestinians are killed for every Israeli death; more than 200, many of them children, have been killed since the summer. UN resolutions are flouted, human rights violated as Palestinian land is stolen, houses demolished and crops destroyed.

Letters: I read with interest the reactions of various organisations to the launch of the Weatherall report on the use of non-human primates in research (Using animals is morally bankrupt, December 13).